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Comic capers with the battles of a publishing house in the Victorian era.

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Bookcases: Series 1: The Man in White

The Man in White

Series 1

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Bored by Gerald, Cordelia is having fun with struggling novelist Wilkie Collins.

Bored by Gerald, Cordelia is having fun with struggling novelist Wilkie Collins. Stars Maggie Steed. From September 1998.

London 1858: A little bored by Gerald, Cordelia is having fun with the novelist Wilkie Collins, who’s having a spell of writer's block with The Woman in White. 

Primus has the answer...or does he?

Starring Michael Cochrane and Maggie Steed.

Martyn Wade's Victorian era comedy.

Primus …... Michael Cochrane
Cordelia …... Maggie Steed
Edith …... Elizabeth Spriggs
Gerald …... David Horovitch
Wilkie Collins …... David Timson
Simeon …... Charles Simpson
George Eliot ..…. David Antrobus

Director: Cherry Cookson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1998.

Bookcases: Series 1

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Comedy by Martyn Wade set in a-19th century publishing house. Starring Michael Cochrane.

Comedy by Martyn Wade set in a 19th-century publishing house. Starring Michael Cochrane.

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